2025 McLaren F1 Team

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A great confident race for McLaren!!! Both drivers are great! Thanks to the team for a decent chassis! Bravo!!!

What about penalty points for Verstappen?

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_cerber1 wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 17:17
A great confident race for McLaren!!! Both drivers are great! Thanks to the team for a decent chassis! Bravo!!!

What about penalty points for Verstappen?
10 seconds time penalty, classified 10th
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There's a further investigation for Max.
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Ground Effect wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 17:20
_cerber1 wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 17:17
A great confident race for McLaren!!! Both drivers are great! Thanks to the team for a decent chassis! Bravo!!!

What about penalty points for Verstappen?
10 seconds time penalty, classified 10th
No, I mean his penalty points? If he gets two more, shouldn't he miss the race?

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We need to keep an eye on Merc PU reliability as well. Unfortunately there have been couple of failures lately. Hopefully those will avoid McLaren drivers.

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mwillems wrote:There's a further investigation for Max.
Interesting. Where are you seeing that?

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Seerix wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 17:25
We need to keep an eye on Merc PU reliability as well. Unfortunately there have been couple of failures lately. Hopefully those will avoid McLaren drivers.
I think today gave them plenty to breathing room to be able to accommodate that tbh.

Almost 2 full races ahead.

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Magistos wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 17:25
mwillems wrote:There's a further investigation for Max.
Interesting. Where are you seeing that?

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I phrased it wrong, they said it can be referred back for further investigation.
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mwillems wrote:
Magistos wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 17:25
mwillems wrote:There's a further investigation for Max.
Interesting. Where are you seeing that?

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I phrased it wrong, they said it can be referred back for further investigation.
Gotcha. That makes sense, thank you.

*Been lurking for a while, starting to pipe up, I just want to say I always appreciate your perspective.



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Magistos wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 17:37
mwillems wrote:
Magistos wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 17:25
Interesting. Where are you seeing that?

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I phrased it wrong, they said it can be referred back for further investigation.
Gotcha. That makes sense, thank you.

*Been lurking for a while, starting to pipe up, I just want to say I always appreciate your perspective.

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I heard that Max got 3 penalty points. Anyone can confirm it?

Actually nevermind. It is confirmed. Max got 3 penalty points and hes 11/12.

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Darth-Piekus wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 18:35
I heard that Max got 3 penalty points. Anyone can confirm it?
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Darth-Piekus wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 18:35
I heard that Max got 3 penalty points. Anyone can confirm it?
Almost certain.
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Ironically, the stewards noted that they were not going to order Verstappen to give the place to Russell despite Red Bull issuing that instruction.

“From the radio communications, it was clear that the driver of Car 1 was asked by his team to ‘give the position back’ to Car 63 for what they perceived to be an earlier breach by Car 1 for leaving the track and gaining a lasting advantage (in fact, we had later determined that we would take no further action in relation to that incident).

https://www.planetf1.com/news/fia-penal ... -collision
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Ben1980 wrote:
01 Jun 2025, 16:17
Not really sure the strategy has been wrong today. Unsure what they should have done differently.
Fully agreed. They executed a good strategy and only issue was that they probably didn't realize Max was a potential 3 stop threat early enough. But once they did it was all under control, even through lapped cars shenanigans where Red Bull juniors cause issues for the leaders. FIA should really force Red Bull to sell off junior team.

It seems that Red Bull has fully accepted that they can't win on merit so they are gambling hard with these strategies. Verstappen was heavily exposed for long periods of time to a potential SC or red flag, and in the end he paid the price when they put him on hards.
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01 Jun 2025, 16:42
Amazing P1-P2. Well done from the boys. Not convinced by the strategy today.
Max should receive at least 10 sec penalty for what he did to Russell. Unbelievable!
This should be a much bigger penalty than 10 seconds. He intentionally rammed another car.

Russell got a 10 second stop and go penalty for cutting the chicane and keeping a position. This is an even worse action.